Music and the Making of Modern Science

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304 Notes to pages 198–215



  1. Williams 1971 , 175.

  2. Ibid. , 176.

  3. Cited in Bowers 2001 , 7.

  4. Wheatstone 1879 , 1 – 12; see also Bowers 2001 , 15 – 31.

  5. Wheatstone 1879 , 5. For the meeting with Ø rsted, see Christensen 2013, 212.

  6. Ibid. , 8.

  7. Ibid. , 21 – 29.

  8. Ibid. , 21.

  9. Ibid. , 36 – 46.

  10. Faraday 1991 , 1:448.

  11. Wheatstone 1879 , 42; emphasis in the original.

  12. Ibid., 44.

  13. Proceedings of the Royal Institution 1829.

  14. Williams 1971 , 177.

  15. Bowers 2001 , 35 – 41, at 37; Atlas 1996 , 28 – 34; Chladni 1821.

  16. As per his 1834 account, Wheatstone 1879 , 84 – 96, at 84; see also Bowers 2001 , 57 – 68; Canales 2009 , 138,
    151, 159.

  17. Wheatstone 1879 , 58 – 59.

  18. Williams 1971 , 178.

  19. Ibid., 179.

  20. Faraday 1932 , 329 – 359; see also Faraday 1831.

  21. Faraday 1831 , 309. See the helpful discussion in Tweney 1992a,b.

  22. Ibid. , 336.

  23. Faraday 1991 , 1:556 – 557.

  24. Faraday 1831 , 337 – 338. See also Coleridge ’ s poem “ The Eolian Harp ” (1795) and Abrahms 1957 ; Bidney



  25. Faraday 1831 , 328.

  26. Faraday 1932 , 1:353.

  27. Ibid., 1:358 – 359.

  28. Faraday 1965 , 1:3.

  29. Faraday 1932 , 1:368; 1965 , 1:4.

  30. Faraday 1965 , 1:16, 18, 19.

  31. From a manuscript in the Royal Institution included in Williams 1971 , 181, which notes the analogy between
    sound and electricity, as does Hirshfeld 2006 , 117 – 118.

  32. See Hubbard 1968 , 27 – 67; Bowers 2001 , 117 – 138.

  33. Tyndall 1961 , 149.

  34. Wheatstone 1879 , 138 – 140, at 138.

  35. For this development, see Galison 2003 , which mentions Wheatstone on 30.

  36. Wheatstone 1879 , 141 – 142.

  37. Ibid. , 143 – 151.

  38. On the different values for this speed, see Faraday 1965 , 3:515 – 516, 575 – 579.

  39. Though Faraday was well aware of Young ’ s work, he shows no awareness of the private letter in which
    Young had recorded his misgivings about the ether.

  40. Faraday 1965 , 3:449 – 451, 161 – 168.

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